Chadwyck-Healey Chooses Excalibur To Provide Intelligent Search Technology for Online Resource KnowUK.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000 Libraries in Britain and Ireland Provide More Than 10 Million Researchers with Free Access to Faster, More Accurate Queries into the People, Institutions and Organizations of the United Kingdom Chadwyck-Healey, Europe's leading electronic publisher of humanities and reference resources, has selected Excalibur Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq:EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), a leading provider of content management solutions for indexing and retrieving text, video and images on the Internet and intranets, to provide intelligent search solutions for KnowUK (http://www.knowuk.co.uk), one of its flagship online publications. Chadwyck-Healey's choice of software is aimed at enabling easy-to-use, free public access to the resources of its Web-based reference service. More than 700 public libraries in the United Kingdom subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; KnowUK, making the online service available at no cost to a population of over 10 million people. Universities, schools, British and Irish cultural centers, corporate libraries and other organizations that need quick access to up-to-date information about the people, places and organizations of the UK have also subscribed to the service, which contains a database of more than 620,000 reference documents. Excalibur's RetrievalWare(R) will provide users with simple and easy access to wide-ranging information, and was chosen because of its powerful natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as and fast, accurate search capabilities. John Taylor, Vice President, Technology and Development for Chadwyck-Healey, commented, "The average person on the street will be able to sit at the library's desktop PC and ask natural language-based questions like, 'list all of the doctors in London that specialize in hereditary heart disease'. People looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. this kind of information want it quickly, they want to know that it is comprehensive and most importantly, that they don't have to compile specially constructed terminology to get an answer to their question." Chadwyck-Healey also selected the Excalibur solution over its key competitors because of its scalability and multiple language support. In addition to providing intelligent search solutions for KnowUK, Excalibur is providing the search technology for the recently launched KnowEurope, a new information service that will be used by institutions and companies across Europe and beyond. Chadwyck-Healey also anticipates its use by home users over the Internet. Both KnowEurope and KnowUK are available on a global basis. "In addition to the high quality of search results, Excalibur's software is extremely flexible, working easily in conjunction with our existing software products and capable of handling intensive and extensive workloads," Taylor added. About Excalibur RetrievalWare(R) Excalibur RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system which allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets. Excalibur RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text files, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , documents, relational database tables, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems) and groupware repositories. Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Excalibur RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets. About Chadwyck-Healey One of Chadwyck-Healey's key strengths is its ability to assemble large amounts of information from disparate sources and mould them into coherent publications and services which are easy to use and which provide real value to users. This ability is clearly demonstrated by very large and complex Web services such as Literature Online and the KnowUK solution for which Excalibur was selected. In both cases, a variety of material types that are cross-searchable and easily navigable NAVIGABLE. Capable of being navigated. 2. In law, the term navigable is applied to the sea, to arms of the sea, and to rivers in which the tide flows and reflows. 5 Taunt. R. 705; S. C. Eng. Com. Law Rep. 240; 5 Pick. R. 199; Ang. Tide Wat. 62; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. are intrinsic features. Chadwyck-Healey became part of Bell & Howell (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BHW BHW Beamten Heimstätten Werk (German Building Society) BHW Boiler Hot Water BHW Brick Headwall BHW Blackman-Harris Window Function BHW Binary Halfword ) Information and Learning in 1999, adding its products to the existing range of information for researchers, academic staff and students in libraries, government, universities and schools, available in over 160 countries. All of the products are now accessible electronically, either by CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). or over the Web. About Excalibur Technologies Corporation Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:EXCA) is a recognized leader in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video. Excalibur works with Global 2000 corporations, software developers, application service providers and government agencies to power Intranet and Internet solutions, corporate portals and eCommerce sites. Excalibur customers and partners include ABC News, AT&T, Akamai/INTERVU, BG Technology, Bloomberg, The Boeing Company, British Telecom, CareerBuilder.com, DataChannel, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. , ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. , iXL, Johnson Space Center, Loudeye, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies Corp., QXL QXL Quixell (European online auction website) QXL Quark Express Element Library .com, Raytheon, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , United Airlines, Watson Wyatt, WebPerfect Solutions and The World Bank. On May 1, 2000, Excalibur and Intel's Interactive Media Services Division announced an agreement to merge and form a new company. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review and shareholder approval, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2000. Plans for the new company focus on achieving a leading role in web-based interactive media services. Contact Excalibur in North America at 800/788-7758 or 703/761-3700, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, or via e-mail at info@excalib.com. The Excalibur logo and the following are worldwide registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation: Excalibur Technologies Corp.(R), RetrievalWare(R), EFS EFS Encrypted File System (Microsoft Windows 2000) EFS Event Free Survival (survival rates in clinical trials) EFS Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (Sweden) (R), and APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability (R). Excalibur Internet Spider(TM), Excalibur Screening Room(TM), The Excalibur Edge(TM) partners program, and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. |
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